Noun: gantlet
| Singular | gantlet |
| Plural | gantlets |
Sample Sentences
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[John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors. [1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 481:]
Nouns inflected like gantlet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet”). More at gauntlet. See: Middle English Nouns '
gauntelett'.